Dionisio Ridruejo

Dionisio Ridruejo (12 October 1912-29 June 1975) was a Falange propagandist who was nicknamed "the Spanish Joseph Goebbels" for his tireless work for the party. In later years, he abandoned fascism to become a social democrat, and he became an opponent of Francisco Franco's government.

Biography
Dionisio Ridruejo was born in Burgo de Osma-Ciudad de Osma, Soria Spain on 12 October 1912. He became a tireless propagandist for the Falange party at the time of the Spanish Civil War, befriending Ramon Serrano Suner and becoming Francoist Spain's Minister of Propaganda in 1938. However, he was censured for writing propaganda in Catalan, as the Falangists sought to end the usage of every language in Spain except for Castilian Spanish. He became disillusioned with the military elements of Francisco Franco's government and was dismissed in 1941, having condemned the power that Colonel Valentin Galarza Morante wielded. In 1955, Ridruejo set up a semi-clandestine club of fascists, communists, socialists, and anarchists as a loosely-allied opposition movement against Francisco Franco. He went into exile in South America during the 1960s, and he converted to social democracy. Ridruejo returned to Spain late in life and died in Madrid in 1975.